Just to make this clear, JarOfSecrets.com takes no hard stance on any major / minor political issues. To put it bluntly we stay neutral on all sides and instead focus on our own goals and ideals. This does not mean our team doesn’t have political views, we do – we just do not believe it is fair or right to use JarOfSecrets as a platform to push an agenda. We believe it is important to make this clear as we have seen many big and small companies come out on a variety of political issues and it very rarely ends well for the company, or the people involved.
JarOfSecrets will and does support most mainstream charities (e.g. children in need, Rain forest Alliance etc..) and are always open to suggestions / ideas when it comes to adding charities to our roaster. However any controversial or heavily political charities such as Black Lives Matter or Woman’s Global Empowerment fund we will not be directly supporting. Just to be clear, and I can not stress this enough we do believe in equal rights and we do believe everyone (regardless of skin colour) should be treated with respect I also want to stress that all these charities are important and equally deserve donations we just do not want to get pulled into the controversial politics surrounding these issues.
Why am I saying this? The short answer is – because sooner or later I’ll have to point this out, and the bigger we get the more pressure there will be on us to ‘take a stand’. I expect a bit of backlash from this post if not now, in the future primarily because that is how people who feel very passionately about these issues react. I want to stress this again in case it wasn’t made clear last time: refusing to take part in heavily political topics does not mean we are against it. Granted we will not be able to avoid all political hot takes as some of our ideas and themes do tie into political themes (e.g. recycling) however I want to stress that our goal is to promote a creative / forward thinking company that is all about having fun. Not a sign post for advertising propaganda.